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captainhaddock
Jul 05, 2012Aspirant
Should WD20EARS be removed from the HW Compatibility Lists
Am not impressed with my wasted disks purchase from the HW Compatibility List. After checking the list, I went for 2 x Western Digital 2TB WD20EARS hard drives for my Duo. http://kb.netgear.com/app/an...
mangrove
Oct 13, 2012Apprentice
Wizball wrote: I have some WD20EARS drives and altought they are not on teh list of compatablity I am sure they where when i installed them. They are now reporting ATA 42 errors and the nas is locking up.
That's bad. :( Not all is lost though, it's possible to recover data from them -- but not from within the NAS itself.
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